The Watchman’s Keys
The US military has given SpaceX its secrets about the sky, on the reasonable grounds that SpaceX has become a …
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US Military grants SpaceX restricted space tracking data access
UK watchdogs urged to ban suicide content after teen death
The Feed That No One Made
Look at how this was made. The quality, or the lack of it, tells us something the policy debate is not discussing. …
FCC Waives Rules For Foreign Paramount Ownership
Look at how this was made. A rule is a piece of joinery: someone cut it, fitted it, and expected it to carry weight. A waiver is what you …
Australia Plans to Let Users Switch Off Social Media Algorithms
Look at how this was made. The quality - or the lack of it - tells us something the policy debate is not discussing. Not the debate about …
Meta Pays $17bn to Settle Teen Addiction Claims
Look at how this was made. The quality - or the lack of it - tells us something the policy debate is not discussing.
I do not mean the …
Iran criminalises contact with foreign media
To make speaking with a foreigner a crime is to admit, with unusual candour, that one’s own citizens are the most persuasive argument …
Meta Fined $567 Million in Child Safety Ruling
Look at how this was made. Not the platform - the correction. The fine itself, the instrument the state has fashioned to answer the harm, is …
Supreme Court Upholds Bans on Transgender Women in Sports
Look at how this was made.
The quality - or the lack of it, for it is a thing of brittle, cold precision - tells us something the legal …
China's electric vehicle (EV) factories are dominating the ecosystems shaping the global auto industry.
Look at how this was made. The quality - or the lack of it - tells us something the policy debate is not discussing. We are told that …
A study published in Nature found that TikTok's algorithm favored pro-Republican content on For You pages during the 2024 US elections.
The algorithm is the only honest politician in the room, for it admits its bias with every swipe, whereas the parties pretend to seek truth …
A "coalition of the willing" is convening the world's first Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference in Colombia to bypass petrostate blockages at Cop summits and chart a path for phasing out fossil fuels.
The nations seeking to bypass the summit are merely attempting to hold a conversation in a room where the most profitable guests have …
Iran has reopened and then reclosed the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, creating ongoing confusion about access to the crucial waterway.
The Strait of Hormuz has become a doorway that is only truly open when it is being closed.
To the earnest observer of international …
Russian missile and drone strikes hit multiple Ukrainian cities, killing several people including a 12-year-old child.
Look at how this was made. The quality - or the lack of it - tells us something the policy debate is not discussing. We are told of strikes, …
Disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz due to US-Iran hostilities are constraining flows of oil, gas, and agricultural inputs, raising costs for US farmers.
The modern statesman seeks to secure the world through conflict, only to find that the cost of victory is the very prosperity he intended to …